Crowds and Controversy
The acquisitions editors at the Harper Collins publishing house must be floating on cloud nine.
Initial sales for Sarah Palin’s new book, Going Rogue, released under the Harper Collins imprint, are going through the roof. The demand for the former Alaska governor’s political biography confirms what heartland conservatives have been saying since August 2008: this woman is hot! Three hundred thousand copies flew off the shelves on November 17, the day of release. Meanwhile, Harper Collins has announced another print run of 100,000 copies. This will put the total run of initial hardback volumes at 1.6 million. Online bookseller Amazon.com reports that online sales figures for Going Rogue made the title “one of our bestselling nonfiction books of 2009.”
In step with the latest in mass-marketing techniques, Governor Palin is now barreling full-steam through a high-profile nationwide book tour. Breaking out with a one-hour network interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Palin’s first-week media sit-downs included visits with Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, and Barbara Walters. Palin is also scheduled to visit 32 cities for book signings across the country. And first reports are phenomenal. In Grand Rapids, Michigan, thousands of enthusiastic supporters waited overnight, in 30 degree weather, at the Woodland Mall to meet the “hockey mom” from Wasilla.
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Philanthropist Says:
‘Controversy’? A hiccup at a book-signing is controversy? The media is full of losers and they prove that by making a stretch for a headline – they’re well aware that few people will bother to read their crap.
The chattering classes from media and politics are so narrow-minded it’s laughable. They want government and lots of it, to include an orderly regime of political favouratism. Sarah Palin falls outside of this orderly regime of theirs so they want to destroy her, arguing that she is not only bad for America but the Republican party as well. What they refuse to recognize is that Sarah Palin is a real leader, not one of their usual chumps. Palin is going to bring the Republican party to her, she has no need to go to the party. The chattering classes simply don’t understand.
Posted on November 23rd, 2009 at 1:06 am